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Date:      Sun, 27 Dec 1998 15:39:02 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
Cc:        skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu, jb@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC GENERICupgrade SMP-GENERIC 
Message-ID:  <199812272339.PAA05690@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Dec 1998 10:35:47 %2B1100." <199812272335.KAA12864@cimlogic.com.au> 

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> Chris Timmons wrote:
> > 
> > Would the appropriate response to the demise of GENERICupgrade be to edit
> > src/Makefile to tell the 2.x user to just copy an appropriate config file
> > to that name?  I don't think we want to abandon the capability to upgrade
> > from 2.x to -current.elf just yet.  
> 
> I think we should test is the file exists and copy GENERIC if not.
> And if the GENERIC file was copied to GENERICupgrade, delete it after
> running config.
> 
> I guess the FreeBSD-labs will be testing all this out?

I'm not quite sure what our response to the 2.2 -> 3.x upgrade path 
will be.  At the moment, we're having more success with "do a binary 
upgrade", because the built upgrade path is littered with corpses.

There'll definitely be some testing done, but I wouldn't want to commit 
to a prognosis at this point.

I *definitely* feel that all of the upgrade stuff should be removed 
from the 3.1 branch as soon as the branch occurs.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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